Support.



F. S. CLEGHORN & H. E. BARBER.

SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FIYLED JAN. 24. 1916.

Patented Mar. 14,1916.

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FRANK S. CLEGHORN, OF BROOKLINE, AND HARRY E. BARBER, 9F BOSTQIQ, MASSA- C'HUSETTS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed January 24, 1916. Serial No. 73,807.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK S. GLEGHORN and HARRYE. BARBER, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Brookline, county of Norfolk, and Boston, county of Suflolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Supports, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts. t

This invention relates to supports and particularly to supports designed to hold articles in an upright position. 1

The structure described herein is an improvement on that described by us in application No. 62,423, filed November 19,1915.

While thesupport embodying the principles' of our invention is adaptable to many support; Fig. 4 is a uses, we consider one of the most important of these that of maintaining radiators suspended adjacent the wall of a room.

In the accompanying drawing we have shown for purposes of definiteness, we shall in the following description refer to a radiator support specifically as typical'of our invention but it will be understood that in doing so our intention is to simplify the description andnot to define or'limit the principles of our invention.

Our invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating various specific embodiments of our invention, wherein:

Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a wall support for radiators embodying our invention, a part of .a radiator being indicated in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side view of a portion of a modified form of from the right; Fig I Fig. 3 showing a still further modification; and Fig. 6 is a front view of the attaching plate.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, in which we have shown one form of support embodying our invention, we have-there illustrated aysupport comprising a base portion or attaching plate 1 adapted to be screwed to a wall by any suitable means such as the.

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a support designed for that use and view ofFig. 3 as seen 5 1s a view similar to expansion bolt 2 on which the base plate 1 is preferably adjustable by means of the elongated slot 3. We prefer to provide forlrolding the plate in adjusted position positively as distinguished from frictionally. For this purpose we have here shown the plate 1 caSt with teeth 1 and a washer 2 on the bolt provided with corresponding teeth. Whenthe bolt 2 is screwed up the plate or base portion will be positively locked in its adjusted position. Extending from the base portion 1 is an arm or rest 4 which is adapted to hold suspended an artisuch as the radiator A indicated in the figures.

arm which engages the radiator a rest as it -takes up the weight of the radiator. Ex-

tendmg from the arm 1 preferably at a,

point intermediate between the base portion 3 and the extremity of the arm is the sup-- porting member 6 which in the modification We have termed the part of this shown forms with the arm an angular artiole-receiving holder. The radiator Ais supportedby the angular rest 4 and is held thereorr' by being clamped to the arm 6 at a location remote from the arm 4, that is, in a difierent horizontal plane therefrom; It should be understood that by the word remote we do .not mean far distant in the ordinary sense as in fact we prefer to make the arm 6 relatively short and to clamp the radiator along a narrow zone near itsbase. Theclamping mechanism employed we will describe in moredetail later. The support as described so far is similar to that disclosed in the application of Barber & Cleghorn above referred to, and by its use is obtained the same advantages that were therein referred to.

In the practical use of supports such as described, difiicultiesof adjustment arise. For example, in supporting heavy articles such as radiators, it is necessary to fasten the base plate 1 directly to the foundation wall of thehouse suchv as the brick wall, which is ordinarily covered by a finish. Such walls inevitably present minor irregularities or are slightly out of true and therefore the base plate 1 and the support may be disposed at a slight angle in spite of the small area of the former which minimizes on the rest and clamped against the supporting member 6, it will be disposed at this same "angle and because of its large area the effect of a very slight deviation from the perpendicular in the support will be very noticeable in the radiator and the job will look farfrom workmanlike.

The more particular object of our invention is to provide a support having all the advantages of that described in the prior application referred to and on which an article may always be supported in a perfectly perpendicular position even although the base plate ofthe support itself is out of plumb. Referring again to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that we have there attained this object by providing a clamping means by which one can adjust and holdthe radiator in any desired angular position relative tothe arm 4 and the supporting member 6 so as to bring it into the exact perpendicular. These means include adjustable abutments adapted to engage the opposite faces of the radiator and we have here shown them as comprising a, screw or threaded plug 7 threaded into the supporting arm 6 and having the conical head-8' which will fit in between the adjacent vertical pipes or so-called columns of the radiator. Tapped into this screw is a second screw 9 preferably provided with the wedge shape washer block 10 journaled thereon which is adapted to engage between the radiator pipes on theother side. The head 8 of the screw 7 has the ordinary slot 8' so that when the screw 9 is withdrawn the screw 7 can be, manipulated from the right in'Fig. 1. The advantages of our.

invention can now be understood by a. brief description of the operation of mounting a radiator on this particular form of support; Supposing the proper number of supports to be disposed in a horizontal line to; receive the radiator, the latter is placed thereon with eachrest 4 taking in between adjacent upright pipes or columns. of the radiator and engagingthe horizontal connecting pipe between them; The screw driver or similar instrument is then inserted between adjacent pipes from the outside with the radiator still in its place and the screw 7 is then adjusted to bring its conical head 8 against adjacent pipes of the radiator (at the left hand side in the figures). The adjustment is such that when the radiator is pressed backward against the abutment formed by the screw it will be in a vertical position. The screw 9 is then inserted,

. still'without disturbingthe radiator, and

the radiator is clamped into place toward the supporting member 6 by means of the washer like head 10 which engagesbetween the upright pipes of the radiator from the right hand slde in the figures. The threadpipes.

site sides and clamp it between them are separate. The screw 9 with its washer block 10 is threaded directly into the supporting arm 6 and acts in the same way as the screwv 9 in-Figs. 1 .and 2. The other abutment is formed by an ordinary screw 7 entering thearm 6 at another location and having thelarge frusto-conical head 8, as shown. In these figures also we have shown a modification wherein the part of the arm of the supporting member 6 which carries the screw 7 is ofl'set so that in the extreme of adjustment the head 8 of that screw will lie flush with or inwardly of the surface of the supporting arm 6. It will be understood, however, that a separate screw 7 might be mounted in a recess much as is the screw 7 1n the other'modification. That is, the supporting member 6 would be dress I faced as regards the screw 7 "a In using this form of the invention the block 10 is turned to bring its longer dimension in linewith the space between the radiator pipes or 001- umns. The radiator may then be placed on the support without removing the screw 9 and the block 10 then turned to the position shown in Fig. 2 to engage the radiator In'Fig. 5 we haveshown an adjustable abutment 7 and 8 of the kind referred to wherein the screw 7 is provided with a shoulder 11 and has the wedge shaped washer block 8 journaled thereon and held against movement by the shoulder 11. With this construction'the block 8 may be fitted between the pipes of the radiator and give a movement of translationv by the rotation of the screw 7 without itself turnmg. i

We have ,shown and described several structures which illustrate the principles of our invention, but it is obvious that many.

'of our invention a strong and inconspicuous support which is practically hidden in use is provided and one on which it is very easy to secure any given article since it is not necessary to handle the article itself a number of timesv or'to make trials to determine aware Whether the proper adjustment has been attained. The article to be supported such as a radiator is simply placed on the support and immediately brought to its proper adjustment without further handling, the manipulation of the clamping means taking place from one side only of the support. I H

We have shown our adjusting mechanism as a part of one style of support of the type referred to in our prior application, but it will be understood that the general outlines of the structure can be considerably varied. I

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A wall support for radiators comprising, in combination an article-suspending bracket arm arranged to furnish a center of pivotal movement about the horizontal for the radiator and means carried by the support disposed to engage the radiator in a different horizontal plane from said rest to turn it on the support whereby to adjust the radiator to and hold it in a desired angular relation independently of the angular position of said support.

2. Supporting means comprising, in combination, a rest to hold an article against movement in a plane, an abutment adjustable transversely to said plane and disposed to engage the article at a point remote from. said rest and a clampingdevice to retain the article against the abutment, said. abutment and clamping device being manipulatable from the same side of said plane.

3. A device of the class described comprising, in combination, a base part, an artide-suspending 'rest projecting therefrom, a supporting part extending transverse to said rest and in spaced relation to said base part and means carried by said supporting part remote from said rest to adjust the article to and hold it in a desired angular relation to said arm.

4. A device of the class described com prising, in combination, a base part, an article-suspending rest projecting therefrom, a supporting part extending transverseto said rest and in spaced relation to said base part, devices carried by said supporting part remote from said rest and individually adjustable toward and fromsaid part and adapted 5 to clamp the article between them.

5. A device of the class described comprising, in combination, an article-holding portion comprising two members defining an angle, one of said members constituting a rest and adjustable abutments arranged for engagement with opposite sides of an article carried by the other member at a location remote from the first member.

6. A device of the class described comprising, in combination, an article-holding portion comprising two members defining an angle, one of said members constituting a rest and adjustable abutments arranged for engagement with opposite sides of an location remote from the first member, said abutments being manipulatable from the same side.

7. A device of the class-described comhoused in said recess and adjustable there from to form an abutment for the inner side of the article supported and a second screw adapted to engage the outer side thereof and clamp the same toward said other member.

9. A device of the class described comprising, in combination, an article holding' portion comprising two members defining .an angle, one of said members constituting a rest, a screw carried by the other member and adapted to form an abutment for the inner side of the article supported and a second screw entering the first and adapted to engage the outer side of the article and it toward said other memben clamp A device of the class described com- 10. prising,

portion comprising two members defining an angle, one of said members constituting a rest, a recess in the other member, a screw housed in said-recess and adjustable therefrom to form an abutment for the inner side of the article supported and a second screw entering the first and adapted to engage the outer side of the article and clamp it toward said other member.

11. A support for radiators comprising a rest to suspend the same, a member unitary therewith and extending substantially parto the radiator at the rear thereof, membersadapted to engage between adjacent pipes of the radiator at opposite sides thereof, adjustable toward and from said member and accessible for adjusting manipulation between the pipes of the radiator from one side thereof, and means to secure the support to a vertical wall.

12. A support comprising a base member for attachment to a vertical surface, an

article receiving portion comprising a rest and a supporting member adapted respecin combination, an article-holding article .carried by the other member at a 'a rest, a recess in the other member, a screw iae tively for application to adjacent sides of our names to this specification, in the presan article supported means to clamp the ence oftwo subscribing Witnesses.

article to said su orting member at a' olnt remote from the i'bshand means to ai djust 5 the angular relation to said base member of the article sustained by said rest and sup- Witnesses:

porting member. ROBERT H. KAMMLER,

In testimony whereof, we have signed F. IRENE CHANDLER. 

